Sheriffs responded to the area and found them hiding in a metal storage container. They were arrested without incident and additionally charged with escape from a custody facility, according to officials.

Three gang members have been arrested after an 18-year-old student was stabbed at R. Rex Parris High School in Palmdale earlier today, according to the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station.

The student had been sitting on a planter in front of the school, at 38801 Clock Tower Plaza Drive, when he was approached by three males at about 11:20 a.m., said Deputy Robbie Royster.

The student and men had a verbal altercation when one of the men stabbed him in the torso, Royster said. The student fell backwards and kicked at the man, who stabbed him two more times in the legs, Royster said. The suspects then fled on foot.

Sheriffs set up a containment area and the school was sent into lockdown as police searched for the suspects. The men were found in a car several blocks away at Carolside Avenue and Avenue P5, Royster said.

It was unclear what the relationship was between the student and the men.

The student was transported to a local hospital, where he is expected to recover from the non-life threatening wounds, Royster said.

No other injuries were reported.

Officials at the school declined to comment when reached by phone, citing the involvement of minors.

Anyone with more information is asked to contact Det. Richard O’Neal at 661-272-2400.
Anyone wishing to remain anonymous should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477). Tipsters may also contact Crime Stoppers by texting to phone number 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) with a cell phone. Tips leading to an arrest can earn up to $1,000.

Signs along the I-5 in Castaic on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, warn motorists not to pick up hitch hikers after 24-year-old Jose Antonio Aldana and 24-year-old Winder Estuardo Barrios, both of Van Nuys. escaped from the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic, where they were in jail for armed robbery. (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)

From Daily News wire services:

CASTAIC — Two inmates due in court this morning escaped from the North County Correctional Facility near Castaic, authorities said.

Jose Aldana and Winder Barrios, both 24 and from Van Nuys, apparently escaped from a loading dock area about 1 a.m. at the jail complex at 29340 The Old Road, said Steve Whitmore of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau. They were discovered missing about two hours afterward, Whitmore said.

“They were on a work crew together at a kitchen dock where trucks come and go,” Whitmore told ABC7. “It’s a secure area. But we believe that they may have planned this — we’re relatively convinced of that. And then at 3:15, the wristband count revealed that they were missing.”

Both men were wearing light-green jail clothes.

Whitmore said the men were armed robbery suspects who were arrested April 2, 2009, by Los Angeles police. They were in the midst of being tried in downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sam Ohta, who is presiding over the pair’s trial, ruled today that the trial would continue despite the men’s absence, according to Jane Robison of the District Attorney’s Office.

Aldana and Barrios are charged with eight counts of second-degree robbery involving a series of robberies in March 2009, along with seven counts – – including home-invasion robbery and false imprisonment by violence — stemming from an alleged March 27, 2009, attack in Encino.

Aldana is also charged with a misdemeanor sexual battery charge involving a separate incident on March 26, 2009.

The men are Hispanic, weigh about 180 pounds, and have black hair and brown eyes. Aldana is 5 feet 3 inches tall, and Barrios is 5 feet 10 inches tall. Barrios has a tattoo of a seahorse on his left shoulder.

The jail was locked down, and sirens were activated to warn the surrounding communities, said sheriff’s Deputy Benjamin Grubb. Electronic signs along the Golden State (5) Freeway in the area warned motorists, “Caution Do Not Pick Up Hitch Hikers.”

Deputies in helicopters and on motorcycles searched the rugged terrain around the facility.

A Los Angeles man accused of using stolen credit cards to rack up nearly $18,000 for local theme parks tickets was busted by sheriff’s deputies last week at a meeting in which he resold tickets to a buyer responding to an online ad, authorities said.

William E. Redd, 37, is facing felony grand theft charges after he allegedly used stolen credit cards to buy tickets or pay for other charges in at least 12 separate transactions at Six Flags Magic Mountain and Knott’s Berry Farm, the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s station announced Wednesday.

He then sold the tickets on Craigslist in a scheme dating back to last year, authorities said.

Investigators, working with Six Flags loss prevention officers, tracked Redd through his online activity and transactions and set up a meeting with him to buy tickets last Thursday. Detectives monitored the exchange nearby and arrested him shortly after, according to the station.

Detectives conducted a parole search of Redd’s home in the 1100 block of West 77th Street and recovered more evidence, according to the station.

“These thieves may think they are safe hiding behind the wall of the Internet,” said Capt. Paul Becker. “But we will not be deterred.”

Redd is being held without bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Newhall Municipal Court on May 3.